Which registrar is that? Internet.bs

Now. This internet.bs website really all over the place. But they have cheap price. (Actually one of my client have even cheaper domain price, but then need to register under his name – I don’t want that!)

After pick my domain and now come to payment. One that I recognize is 2Checkout. Back in my mind I think okay, this 2co seems more legit and I’ve read good review of them before.

So I just proceed.

What happen is, 2co deduct the value from my visa debit card, then go on do nothing. After few minutes I go and have online chat with internet.bs support. He told me that 2co hold the payment for manual review. This usually takes 3 ~ 6 hours and maximum of 24 hours.

This is just stupid!

Also there is no email explaining that also. If I did not go and contact internet.bs support I wont know a thing.

So there goes my rant. I hate 2co!

This is wrong. The right way is to do it the muslim way. Najib is a muslim. So we need to kafan, do sembahyang jenazah, then usung the jenazah all the way to kubur, kebumikan, bacakan talkin….

You see. If do like this, there will be lots of pengajaran yang kita akan akan dapat.

Kita belajar Fardhu Kifayah. Kita dah belajar untuk menjalankan kerja – kerja yang orang lain (mostly) tak nak buat.

Kita berkerja sama dalam menguruskan jenazah. Ada leader yang guide, ada follower yang mengikut. Perhaps kita boleh adakan lebih dari satu jenazah Najib. So kita ada kumpulan. Then kita boleh bandingkan kumpulan mana yang lebih sempurna pengurusan jenazahnya….

Kita juga turut bekerjasama dalam mengusung dan mengebumikan jenazah Najib.

Selepas itu kita boleh insaf mendengar talkin yang dibacakan. Wahai anak adam… bla bla bla (Oh! I pun tak ingat apa inti sari talkin, kena attend jugak la aku ni…)

Jadi soalannya…. Nak buat benda ni, kat kelas pengurusan jenazah dah boleh buat semua benda ni.

Exactly! Pergi kelas pengurusan jenazah lagi bagus dari demo tak tentu pasal ni.

Hutang wajib bayar. Nak tentang pasal interest & service charge, go on. Nak hapuskan hutang 100%? Jauh sikit.

So PR nak offer hapuskan hutang 100%? Lets vote them to be the real government first, then we do DEMO to demand their PROMISE (if they dont do that).

So, I use Dropbox to have a backup and to sync with my laptop at home.

In my Fedora 16 LXDE laptop, I create a symlink into the dropbox directory/folder. So whatever changes I did at source location, will reflect there and dropbox will update it. Walla!

But on my office laptop, it’s a bit older. Running Windows Vista. I did upgrade all to latest update, uninstall whatever not needed. But still a bit slow…..

So in Windows I cant figure out how to do symlink like on Linux. At first I make the code to run directly from dropbox folder. It work fawlessly, until I added css and js file. Owh… This file need to be in htdocs folder (or can still stay in Dropbox directory, I just dont want to config Apache in doing so).

I google!

Found it!

To create a symlink like in Linux:

mklink /j c:/dropbox/project1 c:/xampp/htdocs/project1

And thats all. Now able to access from http://localhost/project1 and any changes done in Dropbox folder can be viewed instantly on browser.

Really make it easy now!

[ source 1 ] [ source 2 ]

However their desktop sync (available only for Windows and Mac) is only for paid user. I dont know how do they expect user to utilize all the 50gb space without desktop sync program available to them.

For comparison dropbox come with 2gb only, but have client for all (ok maybe not, but cover more than box did).

Now I browse around and found that Linux user can sync using davfs2. [Source]

Here what you need to do: (Here is tested working on my Fedora 16 LXDE box)

As root:
yum install davfs2
adduser -a -G <user> davfs2
echo “https://www.box.com/dav /home/<user>/box.net davfs rw,user,noauto 0 0″ > /etc/fstab
chmod u+s /usr/sbin/mount.davfs

Replace <user> with your own username (without < & >)

As <user> (your own user, exit from root):
mkdir ~/box.net
mkdir ~/.davfs2
echo “use_locks 0″ > ~/.davfs2/davfs2.conf
echo “https://www.box.com/dav <email> <password>” > ~/.davfs2/secrets
chmod 600 ~/.davfs2/secrets
mount /home/myuser/box.net

Replace <email> with email you use to login to box (without < & >)
Replace <password> with password you login to box (without < & >)

After that when you open box.net folder in your user directory, it should load your box folder and files. Congrats!

This issues has been actively discussed on both Dell & Nvidia forums. While Dell representative is quite helpful, Nvidia just keep it quiet. But in the end, Dell also not doing anything.

The issues for this specific model Dell Vostro 3300 and 3700 is using Switchable GPU. Means you’re able to run on NVidia GPU (some one 330M, some on 310M etc) when you need it like for gaming. But when not needed you’ll run on Intel HD and thus saving battery life. The idea is good.

However, you’re limited to Dell provided driver only. And they’re not updating it. At first this was no issues for me, as I’m able to play all of my game. This become a problem when I can’t play Need For Speed Run. Because it required me to have latest graphic driver. How old is the driver? Now is the end of 2011, Dell driver is from 2010…. Duh!

Somehow Dell did not put disabling command in BIOS to. The Dell representative said, in pre-production BIOS the command is available…. But not available on production one. But it’s confusing one because in manual it have. And as one of the user point it out, the Dell support Level 2 simply said just return the unit and get a different unit without the problem. Why we buy from Dell anyway?

So here is how:

1. Uninstall NVidia Driver
2. Run Nasty File Remover (Please download from reputable website)
3. Download Intel HD driver from Intel web
4. Download NVidia Latest Driver from NVidia Web
5. Install Intel HD driver first.
6. It might not work, so after restart you need to go to Device Manager -> Display Adapter -> 1st VGA device, do Update Driver and browse for Intel HD driver you just download
7. After restart again, you will see you get back your normal resolution (1600 x 900). First step successful! Congrats! Clap! Clap! Clap!
8. Now go to Device Manager again. Go for the only VGA device (another one is Intel HD, which we install driver already) -> Right Click, Properties -> Details ->Select “Hardware ID”
9. You need to copy the Hardware ID. I recommend to copy it to Notepad.
10. Run Nvidia Installer
11. When it says No Hardware Detected, just cancel it.
12. Browse to where you extract the Nvidia Driver.
13. Find the file name “nvam.inf”
14. Edit this file in Notepad (I use notepad++)
15. You need to find this line -> NVIDIA_DEV.0A35.06 = “NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M     ”  (yes including the space and “)
16. Press Enter. Paste this -> NVIDIA_DEV.0A29.01 = “NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M” (yes including the “)
17. Then find this line -> %NVIDIA_DEV.0A35.06% = Section048, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0A35&SUBSYS_1F171043
18. Press Enter, Paste this -> %NVIDIA_DEV.0A29.01% = Section050, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0A29&SUBSYS_044F1028
19. Save the “nvam.inf” file
20. Re-run the NVidia setup again
21. Now you should be able to install driver already.
22. After restart, you will have the NVidia Control Panel icon on taskbar
23. You’re done

So you get it now? In NVidia drivers they dont have our hardware/device ID, so how in the hell the driver installer going to detect it? So the steps above simple adding our hardware ID into the installer list. Thats all. Oh, the Intel HD part? Because NVidia require the Intel HD to install first.

Now you can configure in control panel on which application to use NVidia GPU, or set it to auto. (This part I’m still experimenting)

Now I can run Need for Speed Run. But NVidia GPU will overheat and laptop will shutdown. This is another issues that has been discussed, poor airflow design by Dell for Vostro 3700 cause this. (This also I’m still experimenting on how to deal with it)

*Update – Solve overheat issues by using this big fan

Jadi aku pegi ke Skynet. So sekarang ni memang aku tak prepare apa, kamera masuk dalam beg, ikat beg ketat – ketat. Cukupla padding dekat bag tu. Jadi kat Skynet aku kata, aku nak pos kamera, ke Melaka. Problem pertama, takder kotak. Tanyalah aku kepada awek kaunter tersebut (kenapa semua kat kaunter mesti awek?) ade kotak tak. Dia masuk dalam dan cari. Lama la jugak, cam 10 ~ 20 minit camtu.

Bila dah keluar, dia bawak la kotak Skynet. Sekali ada lagi sorang staff ni keluar sekali….

(Pendek cerita, ni perbualan dengan staff tersebut)

Staff: Kami tak accept valueble items.
Aku: (Tunjuk ke dinding, ade notis Skynet) Ini takder tulis pun.
Staff: Oh! Diorang lupa letak la tu.

Oh. WTF moment. Apekebende notis camtu pun boleh diorang pertikaikan.

Staff: Kami boleh terima tapi tak jamin la (Pulak?? Tadi kata tak accept).
Aku: Saya tak kisah, sekarang ni boleh letak padding sikit tak, kertas ke.
Staff: Ni valueble items, kami tak jamin, nanti hilang ka, rosak ka, kami tak boleh bayar.
Aku: Memanglah korang tak boleh bayar pun…… (Duh!)

Time ni dia dah cakap – cakap ngan staff lagi sorang. Pastu cakap bahasa ibunda dia yang aku tak paham.

Staff: Bukan apa, nanti kamera ni diorang baling – baling nanti kamera rosak.
Aku: Ni, kat kotak “Handle with care” ? (refer kepada kotak Skynet)
Staff: Pukul 2 pagi dalam van, mana ada orang nak handle with care.

Ahhhhhh. Tensyen pulak aku dengan minah ni.

Aku: Sebelum ni saya pakai Skynet jugak, pos handphone apa semua ok je.
Staff: Itu diorang tak check la tu.
Aku: Diorang bukak je tengok semua barang.
Staff: Haaa??!! Macam mana boleh lepas?

Wah…. Ingat aku pakai jampi ke hape. Dah terang – terang staff Skynet tu yang bukak kotak aku, check satu – satu, siap isi borang declare barang ape. Pastu aku sign. Itu pun kire magic ke boleh lepas.

Apekah permaslahan dengan Skynet yang aku pergi tu tak tahu ler. Aku pun confuse jadinya, nak accept ke tak aku nak courier tu. Nak kata tak nak accept, siap ambik kotak, siap tolong box, potong kotak kasi fit betul – betul dengan item. Siap tape lagi. Tapi banyak mulut pulakkkk.

Jadinya… Siap selamat la pos dslr tersebut. Dan sudahpun diterima dan diconfirmkan ok semuanya oleh pembeli tersebut.

Moral of the story di sini… Aku sangat tak paham dengan staff Skynet tersebut.

This is the normal view. Taken with Nikkor 18-55 Kits lens at 55mm. This shows how small the spider is. It is small.

This is when you reverse mount your 50mm prime lens. Nikkor 50mm 1.8D mount on reverse ring mount. This is actually a cheap but versatile lens. You can do potrait, now you can do macro too. Reverse ring mount should cost you between RM10 ~ RM30 depend on which shop.

This when things get interesting. Based on my reading, you can get better magnification when you put other lens in front of the lens. Particularly a prime lens with aperture wide open. So I put 50mm 1.8D at f/1.8 and put on reverse at the front of Nikkor 18-55 kit lens at 55mm. This is what I get. Better magnification. But you get the black round around the image because of 50mm lens barrel. You can easily crop it off.

Now I got Nikkor 70-300 VR lens too. This I try out at 100mm and 50mm 1.8d in front. Again, you get better magnification, shallow DOF and black round which you crop it off too.

This is the most interesting one. Nikkor 70-300 VR at 200mm with 50mm 1.8D in front. No Black round, very shallow DOF, very high magnification.

So now I need to a bit more research on how to attach the lens in front, maybe use rubber band, maybe use some sort of mount, I don’t know.  I also need to experiment more on what aperture suitable at 200mm since the one as picture is too shallow and not to say very hard to get things in focus.

Until then, happy photography

Dari segi teknikal, ini ditangkap menggunakan Nikon D90, lens Nikkor 28-85mm f3.5-4.5 pada 28mm. 4 keping gambar ditangkap, berlainan shutter speed, dari yang atas puncak pada kelajuan 1/1250 saat sehingga yang bawah pada kelajuan 1/320 saat. Ketetapan yang sama untuk Aperture iaitu f/4.5 dan ISO 200.

Sangat mudah dengan menggunakan Photoshop CS5 untuk buat panorama atau vertorama seperti ini. Ini idea untuk video yang akan datang. Nantikan

This is achieved by having Nikon Sb600 at the left side, control through commander mode in the Nikon D90 set to manual if not mistaken 1/32 (in the camera) (or could be 1/64) because the Exif does not have the flash information.

This is a very small plant. I thought it is a flower, but later informed by my mother it was not a flower. The plant is use to treat some sickness (I don’t know what). But it sure looks nice.

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This picture that I took at Taman Tasik Titiwangsa, KL always will be my inspiration. I think it as “There will always be light shine on you”. Shorten a bit, it become “There will always be”.

So many possibilities that could happen, there will always be new things to try out, every day, every second of our live.

Despite right now I am so down that I can’t even focus with what I am doing with my life, this picture give me strength that there is light in the end of the tunnel. There will always be a good ending for this misery right now.

Dear God, I beg for your forgiveness for that I did lots of stupid thing, lots of sin and please guide me to the right path. The path that lead to Al-Jannah.

Note: When people are in love they tend to forget God, they think they own the world. They don’t. I think I own the world. Truthfully I don’t and last night I learn the pain of truth.